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This book focuses on building regional resilience by comprehensively improving regional assets. Regional vulnerability depends on the availability of regional assets for the population, as well as the population’s ability to access those assets. Such assets include the...
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Springer
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2019-07-26
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In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, central banks created trillions of dollars of new money, and poured it into financial markets. ‘Quantitative Easing’ (QE) was supposed to prevent deflation and restore economic growth. But the money didn’t go to ordinary...
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Polity
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2019-07-26
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The Case For
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Over the past century alone, Russia has lived through great achievements and deepest misery; mass heroism and mass crime; over-blown ambition and near-hopeless despair – always emerging with its sovereignty and its fiercely independent spirit intact. In this book,...
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Polity
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2019-07-26
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Despite efforts to normalize its post-colonial relationship and the downsizing of its permanent military presence, France remains a sought-after security provider in Africa. This book uncovers individual and collective motivations that drive French foreign and security...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-25
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The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoeller demonstrates that it shouldn't have. With a rare combination of historical expertise, statistical acumen, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-25
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Geopolitics is a slippery term. From great power politics and speculation about resource scrambles, to everyday encounters and objects such as smart phones, it affects citizens, corporations, international bodies, social movements, and governments.Geopolitics is far...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-07-25
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Geopolitics is a slippery term. From great power politics and speculation about resource scrambles, to everyday encounters and objects such as smart phones, it affects citizens, corporations, international bodies, social movements, and governments.Geopolitics is far...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-07-25
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This book investigates Australia’s relationship with the Eurovision Song Contest over time and place, from its first screening on SBS in 1983 to Australia's inaugural national selection in 2019. Beginning with an overview of Australia’s Eurovision history, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-25
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Mexican Americans are unique in the panoply of American ethno-racial groups in that they are the descendants of the largest and longest lasting immigration stream in US history. Today, there are approximately 24 million Americans ofMexican descent living in the United...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-25
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Donald Trump won a significant victory in Iowa in 2016. Although Iowa was carried by Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, Trump won the popular vote in 93 of its 99 counties, 32 of which were carried by Obama in 2012. What explains this significant victory, in which a third...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2019-07-24
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Der Sammelband beleuchtet Zustand und Perspektiven des bundesdeutschen demokratischen Systems vor dem Hintergrund der zuletzt für Parteien, Politiker und die repräsentative Demokratie im Allgemeinen diagnostizierte Akzeptanzkrise. Sowohl gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-24
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This book makes an original contribution to the discussion about agro-food exporting countries’ governmental policy. It presents a historicized and internationally contextualized exploration of the political economy of agrarian change in three Latin American countries:...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-24
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Presents an empirical analysis of the six top journals in Peace and Conflict Studies for the past 15 years showcasing relevant content related to the suicideContributes a comprehensive summary of the phenomena of suicide in contemporary groups, in the ancient world and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-24
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Dieser Sammelband gibt einen Überblick über die Herausforderungen für Organisationen im Wirtschaftsschutz im Alltag und stellt Ansätze und Szenarien vor, die für Unternehmen und andere Einrichtungen eine hohe Relevanz haben und die Fähigkeit zur Resilienz erhöhen. Der...
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Springer
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2019-07-24
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A provocative critique of the failures of liberalism “Compelling.” —Wall Street Journal This book is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not...
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Basic Books
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2019-07-23
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In this book the authors demonstrate how the economics of insurance, risk reduction, and damage control or limitation can be combined with concepts of collective choice and collective behavior to improve analysis of the escalating threats faced by alliances throughout...
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Springer
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2019-07-23
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Get ready to run for—and win—that local election! In the land of opportunity, just about anyone who qualifies as an elector can seek public office. Some do it on a whim, some are urged to run, and some want to use their time and talents to make a difference in their...
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For Dummies
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2019-07-23
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Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Bourgeois Liberalism introduces readers to the East Asian Enlightenment led byFukuzawa Yukichi, one of the most important figures in the intellectual history of modern Japan. Despite his impact on political theory and modern Japanese history,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-23
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This book’s leading goal is to explain why some states in the Americas have been markedly more effective than others at forming stable democratic regimes. The six states analyzed are the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. The study...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-22
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In this timely book about the current state of research and practice of emergency management in China, the authors take as their basic premises that we now live in a risk society and that our collective ability to deal with disasters and their aftermath is more...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-07-20
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